Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies
...is opportunity to become another case where only a few privileged people receive therapy. What international authorities can do is help these countries plan for rationing, so that the medical and ethical mistakes of the past are not repeated."...Children's Hospital Boston hosts live Webcast
...tely, it may be performed laparoscopically, though few surgeons have learned how to do this efficiently. Using minimally invasive robotic methods, surgeons are able to perform the complete reconstructive surgery laparoscopically with very high precision, eliminating the need for a large surgical incision...Sunshine mapping from space means brighter solar energy future
...the most important issue. But unfortunately only a few high-quality ground-based measurements are available at this time." Within the wider energy market, such information is also valuable for forecasting electricity load irradiance is the other major environmental influence on demand besides temperatur...Women's health suffers under welfare reform, study says
...uggle with child care and transportation, and have few or no benefits from their employers. Kaplan emphasized that all of these findings are from data that ends in 2000, while the economy was still relatively strong. Since then, more women have hit their lifetime limits on receiving welfare benefits and...What don't we know? Science presents the great unsolved scientific mysteries of our time
...lude: What is the universe made of? In the last few decades, cosmologists have discovered that the ord...o unravel those processes. Why do humans have so few genes? To biologists' great surprise, once the human genome was sequenced in the late 1990s, it beca...Researchers confirm increasing risk for heart failure in aging US population
...cular disease in the 21st century, there have been few community-based studies that gauge the risks of heart failure in a general population. In a report published in the July issue of The American Journal of Medicine, researchers from the University of Massachusetts Medical School looked at the incidenc...Measures can help save frontal sinuses
A few X-ray measurements can help determine whether chronic problems with the hard-to-reach frontal sinuses can be corrected with surgery, according to a new study. "The frontal sinus is behind the forehead and it has a very tortuous drainage," says Dr. S...Knowledge of Tuskegee study doesn't increase medical mistrust
...gee Study. Of those who had heard of it, most knew few details of the study. Almost half of both white and black respondents who had heard of the study thought the U.S. Army conducted it and 75 percent of blacks and 25 percent of whites thought the Tuskegee participants were given syphilis purposely. In ...New drug is effective in reducing rejection in heart transplantation
...therapy becomes a necessary treatment in the first few days post-transplant, physicians would not continue giving additional doses of daclizumab and I think it's unlikely that we'd see this level of infection in those cases. The study results indicate that daclizumab should not be used following cytolyti...Animal research suggests new treatment target for epilepsy
...his or her surroundings. Although they last only a few seconds, the seizures can occur hundreds of times a day and can dramatically impact learning and development. Doctors don't know exactly what causes the seizures, but a prevalent theory is that an abnormal electrical discharge originates in the cere...NIMH study finds antipsychotic Risperidone safe, effective as intermediate term treatment for autism
...dications are used in the treatment of autism, but few medications have been carefully studied to determine the safety and effectiveness of the medication for the treatment of childhood illnesses. Principal investigators at other research sites included Michael G. Aman of Ohio State University, Dr. Chri...Children in chronic pain need better support, say researchers
... guide clinical practice in this complex area, and few paediatric centres have chronic pain management programmes. "Many people used to think that chronic pain was a uniquely adult problem, but recent epidemiological studies have shown that a number of children are severely affected by pain," said Profes...Suicide bomber sensors would not reduce casualties
...t of suicide bomber detectors would at best save a few lives," said Yale Professor Edward H. Kaplan, who co-authored the study with Moshe Kress. "A more promising strategy is to invest available resources in gathering intelligence to intercept suicide bombers before they attack." "The sensing devices cu...Anti-tobacco ads associated with reduced smoking and increased anti-smoking attitudes among youth
...-tobacco media campaigns may reduce adult smoking, few studies have explored their effect on youth. Sherry Emery, Ph.D., from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and colleagues examined the association between exposure to state anti-tobacco advertising and youth smoking-related beliefs and behaviors. ...Dieting linked to increased wealth, study finds
...Research. "The typical person who loses or gains a few pounds had almost no change in wealth, but those who lost or gained large amounts of weight had a more dramatic change," Zagorsky said. For example, white women who dropped their body mass index score (BMI) a standard measure of obesity by 10 point...Vitamin E supplementation shows no overall benefit for major cardiovascular events or cancer
...rally support benefits of vitamin E, but there are few trials of long duration among initially healthy persons. By 1997, despite a lack of randomized trials, 44 percent of U.S. cardiologists reported routine use of antioxidant supplements, primarily vitamin E, compared with 42 percent who routinely used...Report describes potential problem with new drug for seizures, pain
...lder drugs or the newer ones like pregabalin. And few physicians or patients are aware that problems may occur in patients without seizures," says Oaklander, who is an assistant professor of Anaesthesia and Neurology at Harvard Medical School. "We hope that this report will both increase awareness and ...The myth of the medical malpractice claims crisis
...eriod, the system was largely stable and generated few significant changes in claim frequencies, payments, or jury verdicts. "Average payments on medical malpractice claims rose because small claims were squeezed out of the system over time, not because payments on larger claims increased," the authors ...Genomics researchers discover protein deficit that causes drug toxicity
... quite different from what we were thinking even a few years ago," says Liewei Wang, M.D., Ph.D., lead Mayo researcher in the study. "People are still debating what its function really is, but it appears to play a role here by receiving misfolded proteins." Significance of the Research "Nobody has show......or leg amputated if they live in a region that has few vascular surgeons, according to a Rice University/Baylor College of Medicine study published in the July issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery. "We found that areas of the country that had higher numbers of vascular surgeons had more bypass surge...